The Online Game

The Internet version of Einnek Football grew out of the old play-by-mail game originally created by Kennie J. Young.

Following the decision of Andy Parton to stop running the play-by-mail game in early 2002, Richard Balfre in discussion with Einnek founder Kennie Young turned to the Internet to keep the game alive.

Development of the Internet game was quick and Richard launched the game during the first week of June 2002. Response from old PBM players was very positive and the first games in the new Internet version of Einnek One were played on 25th June 2002.

Einnek Two started on 7th April 2003, with Einnek Three kicking-off on 4th March 2005 and Einnek Four on 17th March 2006.

The first Einnek Monthly Six-A-Side competition on the Internet was played on 29th November 2003. While the first revived EILCT was played over Christmas 2004 and is now an annual event over the festive period.

A major revamp of the game occurred in June 2007 when what is popularly called Next Generation Einnek (NGE) was started. The new version cleared up many rule anomalies that had developed over the years and also banned managers from having multiple sides which often gave a temptation to manipulate the game unfairly.